2.5" rather thick litho tin button with gray tin covered back and pair of holes containing the original safety pin style fastener. The button is totally unmarked except for her bold first name "Marilyn" printed over the photo of her posing in her sunshine yellow swim suit. Button was likely produced in Australia. Front has numerous small paint marks, mostly tiny dots and tiny scratches with the two exceptions being a narrow 1/8" spot missing from below her left arm and a .5" hairline scratch over the first letter of her name. Button retains full gloss and the color has not faded. At the lower left corner of the button a corner of a wire table shows. Image is from a photo shoot in 1953 by Frank Powolny. We've seen the image on a postcard from the 1950s printed in Germany, it was used by 20th Century Fox as a publicity still and a photo from the same session appears on the front of a November, 1953 issue of Motion Picture & TV Magazine. For a personality of Marilyn's magnitude it is amazing that there are not many buttons picturing her from the 1950s and 1960s but in fact this is the only vintage Marilyn button we have ever seen.